Russell Wilson will make his regular-season debut as the starting quarterback of the Giants at Washington on Sunday. That’s the easy part. He’s already accomplished the much more daunting challenge he was brought here to meet.

There is a charge in the air among and around this team, an elan that had been missing for many, many years, and a lot of that is because of what Wilson brought with him in his move to East Rutherford. He not only gives the Giants the promise of competent play at the position — another element sorely absent in recent times — but has quickly infused the locker room with a spirit of positivity that no team coming off a three-win season could possibly fake.

He's altered the vibes. That’s everything the Giants' coaches and executives hoped for when they signed him. E

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